These emperors followed a policy of large-scale resettlement within the empire of defeated barbarian tribes, granting them land in return for an obligation of military service much heavier than the usual conscription quota.

An order forbidding the granting of land in Cape Breton, issued in 1763, was removed in 1784.

The usual grant was in precaria, the granting of a life tenure, whereby the tenant stayed on the land only at the pleasure of the lord.

Some church officials came to view granting land to noble families amounted to outright alienation.

Local jurisdictions of Fairfax County, Arlington County, and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church agreed to appropriate $ 3 million to purchase land adjacent to Mason to provide for a Fairfax Campus in 1966 with the intention that the institution would expand into a regional university of major proportions, including the granting of graduate degrees.

By granting land to the abbotts and bishops he appointed, Otto actually made these bishops into " princes of the Empire " ( Reichsfürsten ); in this way, Otto was able to establish a national church.

The Liberal government opted to expand production in mining and agriculture, and in 1876 began granting substantial grants of land and tax exemptions to foreign concerns as well as local businesses.

The need for land reform was addressed mostly by laws directed at granting titles to squatters and other landholders, permitting them to sell their land or to use it as collateral for loans.

For land, it is common to speak of granting or giving possession.

Asturian laws promoted this system with laws, for instance granting a peasant all the land he was able to work and defend as his own property.

Hengist, according to Bede, manipulated Vortigern into granting more land and allowing for more settlers to come in, paving the way for the Germanic settlement of Britain.

He was thought to make the charter in 1001 granting land to Shaftesbury at the elevation of Edward's relics, and some accounts suggest that Æthelred legislated the observation of Edward's feast days across England in a law code of 1008.

The right to vote in Parliamentary elections for county constituencies was uniform throughout the country, granting a vote to all those who owned the freehold of land to an annual rent of 40 shillings (‘ Forty-shilling Freeholders ’).

The Mexican government offered incentives to foreigners who would enlist in its army: granting them citizenship, paying higher wages than the U. S. Army and the offer of generous land grants.

When American and naval military forces decided to occupy California in the late-1840s, representatives of the Mexican Governor Pio Pico broke with the tradition of " granting " land and, instead, sold it, without the usual area limitations to Eulogio de Celis, a native of Spain.

Marius set the precedent of recruiting among the poor and then granting these veterans land upon the conclusion of the campaign.

A charter granting land in the territory of one of the subject kings might record the names of the king as well as the overlord on the witness list appended to the grant ; such a witness list can be seen on the Ismere Diploma, for example.

From Kentish charters it is known that Æthelbald was in control of London, and from Æthelbald's time on, the transition to Mercian control appears to be complete ; an early charter of Offa's, granting land near Harrow, does not even include the king of Essex on the witness list.

Article 153 provides specifically for the use of quotas in the granting of scholarships, positions in the civil service, and business licences, as well as native reservations of land.

Among its original land deeds kept on vellum are deeds granting land to Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton,

The tribe believed they were granting usage rights to the land, not giving it up permanently.

In 1653 Ossamequin and his son Wamsetto, also known as Alexander to the English, signed a deed granting the land that is now Seekonk and the surrounding communities to Thomas Willitt, Myles Standish and Josiah Winslow.

It is known, for example, that the senator Cato the Younger once filibustered in an attempt to prevent the Senate from granting Julius Caesar a law that would have given land to the veterans of Gnaeus Pompey Magnus.

As of May 2010, pending official confirmation of the New York State Board of Education, Macaulay Honors College will cease to be a ' program ' and enter the CUNY system as joint-degree granting four-year college.

Pinckney's Treaty, signed with Spain on October 27, 1795, gave American merchants " right of deposit " in New Orleans, granting them use of the port to store goods for export.

In 1846, the United States and New Granada signed the Bidlack Mallarino Treaty, granting the U. S. rights to build railroads through Panama, and-most significantly-the power to militarily intervene against revolt to guarantee New Granadine control of Panama.

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* February 6 – The Treaty of Waitangi, granting British sovereignty in New Zealand, is signed.

He had been assigned to work with General Electric at Schenectady, New York State, to develop a nuclear propulsion plant for destroyers, but in May 1946, through the efforts of his wartime boss, Rear Admiral Earle Mills, who became the head of the Navy's Bureau of Ships that same year, Rickover was finally sent to Oak Ridge as the deputy manager of the entire project, granting him access to all facilities, projects and reports.

Christian IV of Denmark invited some New Christian families to settle at Glückstadt about 1626, granting certain privileges to them and to conversos who came to Emden about 1649.

" Even after colonies such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Newfoundland were granted responsible government, the British Government continued to advise Governors-General on the granting of Assent.

In 2007, the Radford University Board of Visitors approved the University ’ s Strategic Plan, dubbed " 7-17, Forging a Bold New Future ," with a goal of establishing Radford as one of the top 50 master's degree granting universities in the nation by 2017.

This was the same eye that was badly damaged in his fight with Manny Pacquiao and the one that almost kept the New York State Athletic Commission from granting him his boxing license because of the special procedure that was performed on it in 2010.

Michael De Luca, then Head of Production at New Line, made the deal for Magnolia, granting Anderson final cut without hearing an idea for the film.

The French government made efforts to encourage marriage for the male soldiers and traders in New France by granting dowries to women willing to travel to the colony at Quebec.

The relations between Berkeley, Charles II and the Duke of York account for the granting to him of an interest in New Jersey, as well as in Carolina, which he had previously received.

In 1926, Red Grange and his manager, C. C. Pyle, formed the first American Football League after a dispute over granting Pyle ownship of an NFL franchise in New York City.

In 2009, New England became the center of an organized push to legalize same-sex marriage, with four of the six states in that region granting same-sex couples the legal right to marry.

New York had been in a similar situation as its courts had held that same-sex marriages conducted in states where they are legal must be recognized by those states, but that the state statutes did not allow the issuance of same-sex marriage licenses, a situation which changed when its legislature legalized granting licenses to same-sex couples in 2011.

Grey was again appointed Governor in 1861 following the granting of a degree of self-governance to New Zealand, serving until 1868.

Its granting by the New Zealand Parliament in 1974 is celebrated yearly as Niue's independence on " Constitution Day " on 19 October.

Back on New Caledonia, an Imperial Commission is on the verge of granting colonies to the Moties, not realizing the ultimate danger.

In 1851 the franchise for the Legislative Council was expanded and 1857 saw the granting of the right to vote to all male British subjects 21 years or over in New South Wales and from the 1860s onwards government in New South Wales became increasingly stable and assured.

A decree from Pepi II, granting tax immunity to the temple of Min, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

The French agreed to most of the Iroquois demands, granting them trading rights in New France.